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DMOZ isn't what is was once paraded to be. Frankly, it's a joke of a project, but there's still SEO utility to be drawn from it.

I highly recommend applying to be an editor of your website's niche. I became the editor of my niche and there were about 600 websites in queue, many of them in queue for years. I'm confident that for most people, you'll become an editor faster than you website will roll down queue.

DMOZ is still a solid backlink. It's worth it because it shouldn't take you long to both submit your site and submit an editor application if you're so inclined. But it's not worth it to then check DMOZ every day and pine over admission to the DMOZ elite. Submit and forget.

I do agree. If the submission form itself works technically (which is 1 in 10 times, to me), the approval rate is rather low for me, too. Maybe the things I try to submit are not valuable enough to the DMOZ editors?
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Uwe KeimDec 21 '10 at 20:19

I agree. The editors are often very politicized, protecting their own interests (sites and therefore revenue streams). Getting listed is a complete lottery in many categories. I'm surprised that Google still considers it worthwhile.
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nthonygreenDec 22 '10 at 1:58

Yes. Why? Because it's simple to do and it can be a relatively high quality link. Will it deliver a lot of traffic? probably not. But since it takes only a minute to do and will get you into Google's directory as well why not do it?

Dmoz added my site a month ago, they spent a total of 14 seconds looking at it( i have analytics) so do they really care what actually gets on there
Dmoz has not sffected my serp position or my PR in any way, i only have 20 backlinks so if DMOZ was worth anything i would have moved up the ranks for my choosen kerywords